Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1909 — WENT TO GET MARRIED; LOST HIS POCKETBOOK. [ARTICLE]

WENT TO GET MARRIED; LOST HIS POCKETBOOK.

Young Man Had SIOO -In Purse Which Fortunately Fell Into Honest Hands and Was Recovered. Ernest Rover, a young man who for the past three years has been working for Ed Ranton, and who is a steady and thrifty young man, went to Lafayette Wednesday evening to call upon his bride-elect, Miss Catherine Sperb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sperb, to whom he is to be married next Monday. After arriving in he discovered that his pocketbook, which contained SIOO, was missing. Mr. Rover telephoned to Attorney Frank Foltz, on whose farm he and Mrs. Rover are to begin housekeeping, about his loss and Friday morning Mr. Foltz arranged to place a classified ad in the Republican. On Thanksgiving day, however, Father Bartholomew, of the college, reported the finding of a pocketbook near the depot bV one of the college students named Gerald and authorized that it be advertised. Mr. Foltz was so informed and immediately called up the college and learned that the purse was the one lost by Mr. Rover. This Saturday morning Mr. Rover and Miss Sperb came up from Lafayette and are spending the day with Mr. and Mrs. Foltz. Mr. Rover went to the college and identified his property, and was mighty happy to recover it. Fortunately the purse tras found by a young man of strict honesty. Mr. Rover and Miss Sperb will return to Lafayette this evening and their wedding will take place Monday.